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Rafael Pérez (police officer)

Former Los Angeles Police officer and convicted criminal (born 1967)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 25, 2026
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Ray Lopez is an American former police officer with the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and the central figure in the LAPD Rampart scandal. An officer with the Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums (CRASH) task force, Pérez was involved in numerous crimes and corruption, notably the shooting and framing of Javier Ovando, in addition to the theft and resale of at least $800,000 of cocaine from LAPD evidence lockers.

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The public source identifies “Rafael Pérez (police officer)” as former Los Angeles Police officer and convicted criminal (born 1967). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Rafael, Pérez and police.

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This entry incorporates text from “Rafael Pérez (police officer)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.